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“THIS IS NOT AN EXIT”: AMERICAN PSYCHO, BOLDLY SIGNED BY BRET EASTON ELLIS

ELLIS, Bret Easton. American Psycho. (London): Picador, (1998). Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket.

First hardcover edition, published in England, of Ellis’s highly controversial third novel, boldly signed by him on the title page.

To Norman Mailer, Bret Easton Ellis’s satiric dissection of the American dream was “the first novel to come along in years that takes on deep and Dostoyevskian themes” (Vanity Fair). When controversy led the first American publisher to withdraw plans for publication and the second to publish the increasingly notorious novel only in paperback, this English edition became the true first hardcover edition. On its first publication in England, Fay Weldon praised Ellis, calling American Psycho “a novel written out of the American tradition—the novelist’s function to keep a running tag on the progress of the culture: and he’s done it brilliantly” (Guardian)

A fine copy, scarce signed.